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Little over 500 inhabitants of Hrastovac, a settlement near Croatian city of Garešnica, are today within Garešnica city limits.

Up until the end of the Second World War Hrastovac had been a vibrant society of twelve hundred, mostly inhabited by people of German nationality. Thus it’s alternate name Eichendorf.

As the World War was drawing to a close, most of the inhabitants were moved out to Germany.

But their vital records remained in the local parish. In the late 1980’s they were microfilmed and preserved. The following records have been transcribed into an electronic searchable form by Wally Schlegel and made available online:

Anyone interested in researching birth, marriage and death records of Hrastovac near Garešnica can find a link to those records in our Interesting links section.

Image: Hrastovac123, Wikimedia Commons

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jane rastovac sybert / 12-5-2014 / ·

Hello looking for info of town history and possible match to john j rastovac son of louis s rastovac born june 17 1919 swarta pa son of john rastiovac born 1881 Austriaa or born 1884 garesnic county palresnik yugoslavia married eva hadjamia (hadjanna or Grozdan of austria both spoke austrian any ifo great. Thank you jane r sybert

Derek Matzeg / 8-8-2015 / ·

My oma and opas are from croatia I’m pretty sure their from the village Hrastovac then moved to weskirchen Germany